Straw-poll please - Do you make breakfast for your DH /DP?

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I told DH at 8am I would put this on MN and give him feedback, but he has no clue about this really.

I do usually make him breakfast in the mornings because I'm doing it for the DC as well, so fine. However, we're now into the second week of half-term which means I don't strictly need to be up at 6.30, but I'm kind of in the habit and the cats need feeding anyway. So this morning I had made him poached eggs with salmon on muffins and this is what he actually said to me - "Is there no hollandaise sauce with this?"

Firstly, as if anyone can be bothered to be faffing with egg yolks that early. Secondly, I told him most people would be lucky to get breakfast made for them at all. I don't think I am BU, but could MN please confirm that he is on his own planet to even ask such a question?

Thankyou.

Why would you get up so early to feed the cats when he’s up anyway/you don’t have to get up? Have a lie in op. If your dh asks where his breakfast is, give him a

My DH makes me breakfast - every day!

I'm on maternity leave, so I'm up before my husband with the baby, I do make him breakfast every day of the week, but it's porridge with a bit of protein powder bunged in. A gormet chef, I am not.

I do, but only because he'd eat crappy cereal otherwise. I do either overnight oats, or if he's working from home I'll do him an omelette or yoghurt & fruit etc, whatever I'm having. It's not a hardship.

No, my DH is up and out for 4am so not a chance! 😂

WTF? No I don't unless we're having a family breakfast such as pancakes or bacon butties. Everyone eats as and when they get hungry here and it's cereal/porridge/toast/bagel type stuff here!

Hah nope. Unless it's a special occasion or a Sunday when we have a big family breakfast. Whoever is ready first does the kids breakfast

No.
I make an enormous pile of granola oncce a month, and if he can't get it out of the jar.........well......

My dh makes breakfast for himself me and ds. I usually make dinner though.

During the week DH is up before me and brings me coffee in bed before he leaves for work at 7am. DC are 8 and 11 now so tend to get their own breakfast (cereal), but if having porridge I will supervise.

I get DC ready for school and go to work after school run.

DH leaves the house at 6:15am and usually wakes the toddler up , so absolutely not. Half the time I don't even make him dinner as he doesn't get home til 8pm ish

Your dh is out of the house working for 14 hours a day and you don't even bother plating his dinner up for him?? I'm no 1950's housewife (we usually make our own breakfasts in thus house, unless we're both eating it at the same time, then either of us will do it) but I think this is really bloody mean. How hard is it to put a bit of food up for him?

.... sometimes on a weekend. If I am feel generous. That counts for the children as well.

Not as a general rule, breakfast is help yourself, for the kids as well.

No. I have no idea what he eats for breakfast. If I'm making breakfast for everyone at the weekend I'll include him and he includes me when he makes it.

He does bring me a cup of coffee in bed every morning. My favourite moment of the day. Perhaps suggest this to your DH?

He seems to have you confused with a hotel! Dh brings me coffee in bed during the week. On Sundays I bring him breakfast in bed - his usual breakfast or cooked if I'm cooking breakfast generally

No. I don't think DH even eats breakfast.

Thankyou. I couldn't imagine a situation in this house where he would get routinely involved with the kids in the morning, even in days when he leaves later. He just focuses on himself and goes. The kids are 6, 8, 10 and 12 and I need to be out as well by 7.50 because DD is at a different school than the DSs. DS (12) goes on his own now and needs to leave 7.45, so it is busy.
DH does work very hard but it's not as if he is down a coal mine.

Me and DPs breakfast is a couple of fags and black coffee. One of us makes the coffee the other rolls the fags.

DP makes the coffee in the mornings, I help the kids out with cereal/porridge/toast.

At the weekend DP or I might make a family breakfast instead - pancakes, bacon butties etc.

So no.. I wouldn't habitually make DP breakfast - and hollandaise sauce doesn't happen on a weekday in this house (in fact wouldn't happen at the weekend either unless we went out for breakfast..)

No. But then he doesn't eat breakfast so I'm not about to start. In reality though, if I have time when I'm make the kids' pack ups I'll make some for him for the following day too. He invariably eats them by 10am at work, so I guess that could count as breakfast.

He is just not supporting you properly.

YANBU. He is spoiled.

I pour my husband a bowl of cereal or stick two slices of bread in the toaster if I am doing the same for DS and I as it takes two mins. He does the same if he is preparing breakfast. If we want a cooked breakfast we go to Spoons

Ha, no. We do occassionally have a nice cooked breakfast on the weekend, so maybe twice a month or so, one of us might make eggs or pancakes or bacon or whatever for the family on a saturday or sunday. In which case, obviously it's a family meal so whoever makes it (it's equally likely to be either of us) makes enough for everyone. But no, I don't think other than that either of us has ever made each other breakfast, except maybe as a birthday treat or something of that sort. with the exception of dinner, we make our own meals and we don't usually have the same things.

Wow, he clearly sees you as some kind of personal maid, just stop doing it if he never returns the favour and can't even say a simple thank you. If he's so uninformed about cooking, it's time he learnt surely?

My DP brings me a tea every week day morning as he's up first, and I make him coffee every Sunday. He also tends to make us both a cooked breakfast on a Sunday.